HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Health

Illness on the Road: Tips From A Hotel Doctor

amandak — 2008-04-18T09:08:18-05:00

If you've been ill in a Los Angeles hotel and needed a doctor, the chances are high that the white-coat who came to see you was Dr. Mike Oppenheim.

He's been a hotel doctor since the 1980s and reckons he's made 15,000 hotel room visits. And advised thousands more over the phone.

He wrote a few tips for hotels recently that might just be useful for you, too, if you end up sick in a hotel room. Lots of hotels are using those agencies who take calls and then page a doctor who might turn up, eventually.

Berlin: Get A Good Night's Sleep in Berlin

amandak — 2007-09-18T11:34:35-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/DogSleepingMask.jpg" class="imgborder"> You read it here first that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ritz-Carlton+Berlin/ian/216476">Ritz-Carlton Berlin</a> gets a big thumbs up for its <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/4/10/103049/501/hotels/%26quot%3BOn+the+Eighth+Day+God+Created+the+Ritz+Carlton+Bed%26quot%3B">comfortable beds</a>, and now we can report on comedian Mo Rocca's first hand experience with the hotel's <a href="http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/15/check-out-my-commie-hot-rod/">sleep clinic</a>.While it seems kinda odd to fly half-way around the world to work out how to sleep better, Mo recently tried out the weekend sleep clinic package that's supposed to teach you how to sleep more soundly (although we reckon we're pretty good at that already). According to Mo, the package includes several days of being "steamed, sloughed, kneaded, and glazed", and apparently his sleep profile meant he had to wear a "brain light" at night. It is probably pretty

Heard Around the Hotel World: The Healthy Edition

juliana — 2007-07-05T16:24:25-05:00

We've recently received a bunch of emails (thankfully not hate mail) that are about hotels announcing new health programs--some fitness and some life-saving heavy stuff.

So instead of our usual gossipy Heard Around the Hotel World, we thought we do a round-up of the good-for-you hotel news. You might need it after that BBQ session yesterday anyways.

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